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COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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A close analogy can be drawn between cancer of the cell and a society hooked on drugs.
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Perhaps a closer analogy would be with a telescope that misrepresented what we were looking at.
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There are close analogies between the two spheres.
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A close analogy with the art of singing can be made here.
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Apart from obvious differences in scale, there were close analogies .
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In the bureaucratic model, there is a close analogy with the theory of the firm.
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There is a good analogy with light.
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In fact a good analogy may be made with human relationships.
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The reason for this is interesting, and worth a digression because it provides a good genetic analogy .
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The best analogy is probably with the methods of the legal profession.
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The iridescent films of oil on top of puddles provide perhaps the best analogies .
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I have suggested that singing is a good analogy for the discovery and use of the light principle.
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Oresme even drew an analogy with what would happen on a moving ship, as Galileo was later to do.
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Here we may draw an analogy between geriatrics and paediatrics, another age-based medical specialism.
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We can perhaps draw a useful analogy with pharmaceutical products.
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I find this an illuminating analogy of the real purpose of prayer.
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It is not, of course, invariably helpful to make analogies between sexism and racism.
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Analogies are of interest because they require a construction and comparison of relationships between the members that make up the analogy .
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It starts out with a familiar idea and then builds on it, making neater analogies and finer distinctions.
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Logic machines have turned out to be poor at dealing with images and making analogies .
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Michael Ghiselin developed this idea further in 1974 and made some telling analogies with economic trends.
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A third way of dealing with a topic indirectly, perhaps the most difficult to handle, is to use analogy .
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Another strategy that Cooley uses occasionally is the analogy between things that are very different in most respects.
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He then uses this analogy with the sentence to describe the trajectory by which the subject constitutes itself through the other.
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I have used the analogy of the structure of a document to describe the basis of the curriculum.
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I used the analogy of a family that goes from rags to riches and back to rags in three or four generations.
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These items are all connected, and any of them may be used as analogies or homologies for each other.
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He sees that Shakespeare discovered how he might use analogy and metaphor as themost acute representation of a mind engaged in thought.
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To use Gordon Brown's analogy , we are being offered sparrows and sticklebacks.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Leave all your old team analogies behind.
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Lyell's system was, therefore, to exemplify an epistemological analogy .
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The analogy has its limitations, but is a valuable starting point.
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The Hobbesian analogy is considered to be partial and gender-biased.
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The main criticism of the argument from analogy is that these two assumptions are inconsistent.
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The Tree of Knowledge is the appropriate analogy .
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They assume, that is, that the principles of analogy and local interpretation constrain their experience.
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To return to the analogy of the lawn sprinkler and the rainstorm, both can explain how the driveway got wet.